Beyonce Sits Down With Deion Sanders & Rich Eisen

Beyonce and her mama Tina were all smiles yesterday following the Super Bowl press conference where Beyonce sung the National Anthem live for a room full of journalists. After she passed that test, she switched out of her white Olcay Olsen freakum dress (otherwise known as the Slit back leather dress) and into an orange Antonio Berardi dress for a candid interview with sportscasters Rich Eisen and Deion Sanders.

Bey brought a lot of personality to the interview as she talked about how supportive her husband is, her daughter and why she chose to open the Super Bowl press conference by singing the National Anthem. She said, “I figured it was the best way to address it and move on.”

She also revealed that she’s been studying and researching other legendary artists who have performed during the half-time show:

When I decided to do this, when I was asked to do it, I went back and researched every performance I could find on the internet, So I’ve seen all of them over and over again. My favorite probably was Prince, of course I loved Madonna’s, I’ve studied Michael’s, all of my heroes, they were all great.

Before the interview was over, Deion and Rich begged and pleaded with Bey to reveal some tea on her performance, however, she only hit them with, “I’ll be singing live.”

Catch that interview, plus watch Beyonce put her back up singers in the spotlight in another rehearsal video teaser below:

I see Baddie Bey still serving that ole Lola Falana side swooped hair and now she done hit us with a Dominique Deveraux dress circa Dynasty! U better werk that interview Blue momma! After this Superbowl I’m so ready for new music and tour dates! Chile u not gone tease me, 2023 best be Bey season.

I just LOVE how she’s secretly rocking Rihanna’s newest hair do.. because Rihanna is relevant… I SWEAR, if I see ANY “inspiration” from Super Bowl show’s past in Beyonce’s set, I’m ROASTING her ass. She STAY swagger-jackin…. Come with the originality, Bey. I know you’re capable and the streets IS watchin…

I think Rihanna started the open book trend. No shade. The whole mysterious thing isn’t wrking anymore.. people like realness, not perfection. I love Rih but she isn’t all that taleted ..she gives you flawed-realness & you gotta love her for that! Its the reason why every time people find a flaw in Beyonce its a huge “scandal”, when you appear too perfect people put you on this pedastal, that must be exhausting!

Her band is amazing these women are inspirational I’d love to work in such environment with talented women bringing their best while still having fun. I respect Bey she’s beautiful, independent, strong, humble and talented. She’s really blessed.

i dont buy anything this woman is selling, her singing live not singing live, we know she can sing but that wasnt the point come on, so i guess the super bowl is about her not about the players and team who works they ass off since their childhood to get to the championship . i mean she said thats why she didnt sing live at the inauguration thumbs down !!!

+12 voice of treason Reply:February 2nd, 2013 at 12:26 am

I LOVE HER!!!!! but for real tho, Beyoncé is bigger than the Super Bowl…

Also to the beyonce stans I love bee most of her songs from old to new are on my playlist but I honestly lost respect for her when this “blue ivy” pregnancy came about. As you can see when a famous person has a child or children they take time off either on purpose or the newborn baby just naturally has to be taken care of so the results is time off from work! Beyonce and JayZ have been photographed more now after the baby then before( and not photographed with the child) beyonce acts if she has too much time on her hands! How does she have time for these many press conferences, dance rehearsals, even a month after the baby was said to be born she was up and at it! Oh but to Stan’s that’s a super mom? Hello she’s human and does not have powers even rhi asked for time off to start a family! A baby needs caring & if Beyonce is a new mom the way she is now is not the characteristics of a new mother

rehearsed? I admit she can give some robotic rehearsed interviews, but this was not one. She was herself. Very open. She showed personality. And me likey. She is not my fave for nothing.

And Bey just slay me from head to teo why don’t. My girl is looking mighty bootylicious. Yes Bey! Loving this whole new vibe she is giving. I think all this hating and talking everytime she does something is getting her, and she is at yhat age where she is like “f” it. This is who I am don’t like it f**k off and I ain’t mad at her. She still manages to keep it classy. That’s why the maaaaaaaad. Ha ha ha!!!

What I don’t understand with Beyonce is, how does she manage to stay so calm with all these rumours about her? The pregnancy, the lip synching, its amazing how she can remain classy.

It must be nice that she can take her mum to all these big achievements, her mum must be so proud. It would have ben nice to see her dad there too, none of us know what their relationship is like but he’s obviously a major part of her success

Even though Bey is an amazing performer, has done this a million times, she must be feeling nervous,I mean its the superbowl its such a big deal

I’m from the u.k and I too will be watching superbowl-only for the half time show, us british people watch real football, sorry can’t get into american football

And this latest story of Beyonce clearly saying shes a thief! she can wear a big red sign saying “I DID IT” and the stans without any proof will find her innocent! shes sitting down at a conference she stated herself she “researched” other performers at the Super Bowl? Uhmm I just thought something was wrong with that why not come up with your own performance! People always say she’s not original and I agree the proof is in the pudding for every accusation against bee there is proof! Stilling swag there’s proof, stilling stage performances there is proof, pregnancy there is too much to be proven it was fake! For the Stan’s where’s the proof? We get it you like her personality but she a performer who put her own business out their we are not stalking her like whenshechose to put on insta the pic of her wearing a shirt saying “can I live” bey must we remind you that you were the one asking for attention when you opted to go on live at the VMA’s and announce your “pregnancy”

Very great interview!! I know her performance will be awesome. I still feel like she stooped with the conference performance. It’s like arguing with a fool when you start addressing hoopla and the BS… even if it’s just one time, you open the gates. Don’t let’em see you sweat.

But she didnt sweat. She just shut them up. In a subtle way. They downed this girl so bad because she sung with a track and made a huge deal about it. So she sung it and made it a big deal to prove them wrong. And move on.

+9 I Stan for Bey but I refuse to argue over the Internet Reply:February 2nd, 2013 at 12:52 am

Yessss for the Virgos!!! Perfectionist is our middle name ain’t it??!! Am I the only one that thinks it would be the cutest thing to see Blue do the Single Ladies hand movement?? I heard about the “Mrs Carter Show” world tour and I swear that I’m going to do everything in my power to go to a

THAT BUTT PAD IS TOO OBVIOUS! EVEN THE BLIND CAN SEE IT, BEY BEEN FAKE IS NOT YOUR STRONG POINT IN ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS! FOR EXAMPLE: YOUR ACTING SUCKS, YOUR FAKE PREGNANCY, YOUR FAKE ASS. WHY BEY? WHY BEY? PLEASE STOP IT YOUR NOT SPECIAL. GET OVER IT.

She’s not wearing a butt pad. And when have she ever admitted to do so? When Beyonce do that pose her bum tends to look over her back.
Compare with other pictures. I didn’t react at all. It’s her curves.

I dont usually agree with the butt pad conspiracy thing but you can tell when she is sitting in that first photo.
You compare her butt in the pics above to her butt yesterday in the white dress. and you can see that there is an obvious difference.
Beyonce does have hips her ass is there but it certain is not that big

I, too, was wondering if she was wearing a butt pad. It is pretty obvious in the pic with Mama Tina. Either way, she is KILLING that dress!

+9 LOL Reply:February 1st, 2013 at 5:00 pm

Can you let a WOMAN be a woman!!!!!!!! So what if a woman wears fake hair or a butt pad if she so chooses. I would rather a woman be natural- because that is true beauty- but with ALL the judgment and superficial people of the world- a butt pad is safer than a silicon injected butt collected from a dirty plastic bottle with the ingredients of silicone of construction grade bought from the Home Depot.
Since I’m on the subject- there was some negative feedback about Phaedre’s body and doing a video. Now- I am not particularly a fan of her body type- HOWEVER- her body looks very real. She has no fake breast, no fake butt, and no lipo. That is RARE. She gave birth to a healthy son at her age. Which is also RARE in this day of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ask Toni Braxton). She is educated and spits out healthy babies and works out with the body God gave her. THAT IS A DIME PIECE!!!!!!!

Beyonce looked very pretty, in both dresses. Now, I’ll just sit back and wait to see what reason some (not all) of yall will find to drag her this time, her toenails are too long? her teeth not white enough? the part in her hair not straight enough, smh.

I think people talk so much **** about her because soooo many of her fans love her and swear she can do no wrong, so others take it upon themselves to prove other wise. its so petty but i believe that’s why people just bash her so much on every little thing.
plus……some people are just haters…lol.

@LEE- No, I wasn’t, but I have defended Alicia Keys on plenty other NB posts, I’ve NEVER said Beyonce should be immune from ANYTHING, I’m talking about the people who find ANY and I do mean ANY reason to drag her, and the constant bashing of her child, smh, those are the kinds of things I was referring to. And once again, I am not a stan, everyone that likes a particular artist is not some obsessed fan/stan, good grief. You can’t even say something nice about someone on NB anymore (especially if it’s Beyonce) without being called a stan, and by the way, it’s PRACTICE not PRACTISE.

Fair enough I just wanted to point out that it seems the defence on criticism is reserved for artist like Beyonce and yet people freely destroy others with critism with noone really not saying much in their defense.

As for you correction on the Practise what you preach. I am correct
Practise is the verb and practice is a noun.

-1 SultryandDangerouKis Reply:February 1st, 2013 at 6:42 pm

Exactly. It’s funny how Beyonce stans feel like she is not supposed to be talked about, but they have no problem with others are talked about WAY worse than she is – and many of them are joing in on the ripping.

Beyonce was pretty flawless in that interview. (However I did see the lump of the weave track that her hair was covering). Man, I KNOW it is hard for a woman to be in the same room as that woman. It seems that all the light sucks out of a room and shines only on HER!!!!! What a gift or what a curse beauty is.

*All you stans- when I commented on seeing the lump of her weave track- it was just to agree that she was looking so stunning that you would have to study the weave job to find a fault* She looks fab!!!!!

Ok, I love me some Bey, and she is such a class act, but I do not recall in history a super bowl half time performer getting all this publicity before there performance. Im just hoping she kills it, and there are absolutely no MISHAPS. Gone head Bey with yo bad self!

They do press conferences for the Super Bowl half time performer every year. The press conference aired on the NFL channel. Beyonce didn’t schedule her own press conference. Guys alot of you could sound smarter if you just used 10 seconds and typed in google, you could watch Madonna’s SB press conference, the Black eyed peas press conference or any other performers during the modern era. Get it together people!

there was a big buzz last year for madonna i think the hoopla with bey is bigger amongst us black people for some dumb reason i wanna see the game if i could care less about beyonce performing there we all know she is going to do a good job but the buzz is ridic and its not good for the nfl and the players because its overshadowing their moment and their handwork to get to play in the Super Bowl

+4 lee Reply:February 1st, 2013 at 5:01 pm

Part of it of course is blogs like these that are virtually Beyonce fan sites. They will do 6 articles on the same subject matter. One article for each step she makes and two more for what so and so said about it and this is before she has opened her mouth to sing the natiional anthem and then there is an article on the earings and then an article on the shoes oh of course an article on the dress.

-1 Geena Reply:February 2nd, 2013 at 3:26 am

It does seem like it but maybe because this is a urban blog and they follow Beyonce. They wouldn’t follow an artist like Madonna or B.E.P. I bet the two teams are mad though.

Girl are you okay? Im getting a little worried about you. You need to STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER and GO MAKE SOME FRIENDS HONEY BOO BOO! Maybe you will be happier. Just a thought. Dr. Philamena gone get you right chile!

She will slay and that is nothing new! I’m sorry but it’s hilarious how one woman is single handily overshadowing an entire sport lmao, “Theres a football game at Beyonce’s concert” was the funniest and most honest thing i’ve seen. I almost forgot who was even playing! HER AND RIHANNA HAVE GREAT PROMO TEAMS GOOD LORD!

Yes its so terrible when people research to perfect their craft. That’s about the worst thing that can be done. Being 100% original is the only way to be! That’s why we have so many superstars commenting on this site because you all understand that so well! LOL

Are you also the most innovative person in your field? Have you never researched anyone else in said field and created every thing you use on your own? If so I’m sure we should be celebrating you this black history month…I asked…

-3 kay p Reply:February 1st, 2013 at 9:26 pm

it’s a joke sis sheesh lighten up a bit ….

This entire situation with rabid, foaming at the mouth stans is out of control.

People have valid points about what they see with their own two eyes.
Instead of agreeing to disagree….people choose to make gross generalizations, attack and insult.
For what?? Seriously….

What difference does it make in your life if someone doesn’t like, maybe even hates on Beyonce?

Not just her either – Chris Brown, Rihanna…..those seem to be the top three.
What the heck? You people go in….it’s not that serious.

+2 Can I live Reply:February 1st, 2013 at 9:59 pm

I don’t care who you or anyone else likes, but the points that you ppl use to validate your hatred of a person a lot of times is ridiculous. I would be less than myself to read ridiculous statements about someone doing their research in their field as a doctor, lawyer, or anyone with a viable career would do. Not liking her is not my issue, but your preposterous statements however, those I can’t let slide.

-3 kay p Reply:February 1st, 2013 at 10:16 pm

what was ridiculous about my statement….I said she was a perfectionist.

then I made a joke. You don’t know me or what I do.

we’ve seen the result of some of her research and it is closer to copying than innovative. That is an opinion based on things I have seen.
Why is that ridiculous or hate?
Its just an observation….

Isn’t that what the comments are for?

Why attack and insult though?
I don’t hate beyonce I just feel she lacks authenticity.

I’m annoyed with the stans because I’m entitled to my opinion – shaded or otherwise.

+5 Rae Reply:February 2nd, 2013 at 7:30 am

WRONG. Michael Jackson, arguably the most famous artist of all time, did a LOT of research. The moonwalk was not his creation- he borrowed it and put his style into it. Many of his other dance moves were borrowed from James Brown, Fred Astaire, or popular street dance moves. His whole “Shamone!” thing is also borrowed. Originally a female singer from the 60s, whose name I can’t remember, shouted shamone in one of her songs. The list goes on, but none of the great performers would have been nearly as popular without doing their research.

I think her padded dress is cute. Her shoes are ugly but i hope that the stans dont get their feelings hurt when her album doesnt sell or her halftime performance has the lowest ratings. Ill be working sunday keeping nyc safer

Oh, former beyonce armstrong.
You call stans crazy but, your hatred for Beyonce is unbelievable. It’s like Beyonce did something personal to you. You must be a very miserable person. Wishing someone failure.
And we don’t care were you’re going to be on Sunday, for one thing is for sure. You’re going to watch her performance regardless and still be negative.
Something must have happened during your upbringing. May God bless you. Hope you find love and happiness.

I will NEVER undertsand how can someone who dislikes Beyonce or hates her for that matter, can continually click on posts that are about her and comment about how much they dislike or hate her. Like, why even waste your time on somebody you claim you don’t care for?

Uuuuuugggggghhhh everything beyonce does seems so rehearsed. One day the truth will come out about her. She is a business…the lengths people go thru to keep their business profitable. Sad you “fans” think she’s opening up and being candid. She had a press conference to prove she could sing (yet we ALLNknew that), yet couldn’t pose on nan cover in all her beautiful pregnant glory, just cuz she “loves her haters” right? She used her pregnancy to keep herself in the headlines and selling records. If she’s selling y’all buying.

Uh,Superbowl performers usually have a press conference (i.e Madonna, Janet, Black eyed peas, etc.). And if she did pose on a cover, people still would have bashed, her saying “she is doing it for attention”, etc. Basically what you are saying now, so it wouldn’t have made a difference. Lastly, during her pregnancy, she was promoting her perfume “pulse” and her album “4”. So, during interviews of course they are going to ask her questions about it and it’s going to make headlines; she is one of the biggest superstars in the world- anything she does publicly, whether it be about her music or her personal life, it’s going to make headlines

It’s like people won’t let beyonce be a classy woman. Could it be that she is that poised of a person! because she doesn’t act all wild and crazy but instead like a lady that presents herself with grace you are not satisfied. Beyonce acts how real woman should, not all out of control and hoot rat to the max like some celebrities. She is a international super star, someday you’ll just have to get over it, and stop hating.

Now it’s butt pads – SHEEESH! LOL Depending on your execise regimen your butt CAN go from BOOM to BOOP and the fit of your clothes. All materials are not giving. But, when you wear Rainbow dresses you don’t have to worry about quailty or the fit – you will just beside an ill-fitting garment. Werk Bey!

everybody know Bey always have worn butt pads. Its not a secret, I dont know why she try to make it one. Dont ever make wide hips fool ya, her ass is as flat as a pancake just like her momma and her sister. She didnt escape! lol

Wow! She seems so relaxed, comfortable, and open in this interview! I haven’t seen her like this in a lonnngggg time. She looks beautiful as always, and it seems like she’s finally letting her hair down. Go Bey! Go Bey! Lovely

Bey is beautiful. She looks fresh and glowing. It does seem though she is challenged with speaking fluently. Most of her sentences are broken up when she speaks and she frequently looks away when she talks.. like she’s always has to think of what to say. I find it hard to believe someone who’s been in her profession well over a decade still gets nervous doing interviews. That should be second nature by now…

I’m predicting she’ll probably sing countdown and run the world for the superbowl.

No shade, maybe a little bit of tea…Ms. Bey never had an ass you can see from the front. Maybe them hips but never the ass. Look closely at 6:58, why her left side look lumpy and disfigured from the other half of her body? I smell booty shots in the air. Do you?

This interview with Deon was the best I have ever seen her do … very relaxed a chill … I actually liked her in this one … (see stans I will admit when she is great) … However her backup singers sound better than her singing wise… them heffas can sing ….
I am excited to see this

She lied about watching Prince Halftime performance from 2007 … there is no video on youtube of it… My friend plays for him .. he keeps all of his stuff off the internet… He has a person who goes and pulls it down …. he is not a fan of the internet at all …
I wen to see him when he was here in L.A my friend got m ticket s… I took pictures and posted them on fb and she made me take them down cause she could have gotten fired… he does not play about that …
So she is mistaken because I even looked there is no performance for Prince on Youtube for superbowl halftime …

I make one comment and get thumbs den…damn. I am going to say again Beyonce lying when she talking about that baby …the baby just turned one in January….unless she super baby she not doing all that….I know she showed pics on beach and that’s a big one year old.

And I am a fan…but come on…she kept looking away and up in the air…her smile seemed forced.

For as much time and energy as they put into her not singing the Natl Anthem they could have found out she didn’t carry a baby if they’d dug as hard. I always found it strange that they name the baby Blue after one of Jay’s ex jumpoff’s I think possibly Blu Cantrell had this baby for them, and for the record I don’t have any thing against surrogates and getting a baby this way but I do have a probably with people trying to fool the masses.

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